Jim Bakker Show - The Narcissistic Generation
Aired: 2015-12-20
Duration: 01:59


=== Sermons That Stir Conscience (01:59) ===

[00:00:00]  There's an article on the news.
[00:00:02]  Just came on a few hours ago, and you may have heard it by now.
[00:00:07]  But the president of one of the, I think it was the Colorado Wesleyan College, fed up college president.
[00:00:17]  He spoke to the kids who keep saying they're victims.
[00:00:21]  And they go to hear a sermon.
[00:00:24]  Thank God the Wesleyans are still preaching.
[00:00:27]  And the kids were complaining that it made them uncomfortable, Steve.
[00:00:32]  Is that crazy?
[00:00:33]  Sermons are supposed to make you uncomfortable.
[00:00:36]  Yes, amen.
[00:00:39]  And so the president, Piper, and he says, our culture has actually taught kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic.
[00:00:49]  Oh, boy.
[00:00:50]  Have you ever heard that word?
[00:00:51]  This is the narcissistic generation.
[00:00:53]  It talks about how the students were feeling victimized because the university chapel service was about love and they were feeling victimized.
[00:01:02]  And that they were the love of other people, and they felt like he was entering their private space.
[00:01:09]  He explained that the familiar feeling of discomfort when confronted with wrongdoing is called a conscience.
[00:01:20]  Oh.
[00:01:21]  Wow.
[00:01:21]  I wonder, has anybody heard of a conscience?
[00:01:25]  You know, and that the goal of many good sermons is to get you to confess your sins, not coddle in your selfishness.
[00:01:33]  And now they're trying to throw the guy out.
[00:01:36]  Some people are.
[00:01:37]  My goodness.
[00:01:38]  Anything that makes us uncomfortable, we want to get rid of it.
[00:01:43]  But, you know, God wants to kind of stir our nest, I think.
[00:01:47]  You know, you know, President Piper.
[00:01:49]  You do.
[00:01:49]  And he's not a quitter.
[00:01:51]  And thank God he stood up to it.
[00:01:53]  You know, now.
[00:01:54]  We all got to stand with him.
[00:01:56]  It's time to stand behind your pastors, your leaders.